Intermediate Software Developer

About the Role

This role focuses on designing and delivering modern backend services in a Microsoft Azure environment, supporting both Flutter and Blazor based frontends, and contributing to a scalable platform foundation that enables future innovation (including advanced data capabilities and AI-driven solutions).

This is a hands-on development role suited to engineers who enjoy building new systems, working with modern technologies, and contributing to a forward-looking technical environment.

Key Responsibilities

New Platform Development

• Design and build backend services using modern .NET technologies.
• Develop APIs supporting new student and institutional applications.
• Contribute to a scalable, cloud-native platform architecture in Azure.
• Collaborate with Flutter and Blazor frontend development on new features.

Cloud & Engineering Practices

• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and structured DevOps workflows.
• Produce clean, maintainable, production-ready software.
• Participate in code reviews and collaborative development practices.
• Contribute to technical documentation and development standards.

Innovation & Platform Evolution

• Contribute to platform capabilities that support future AI and advanced data initiatives.
• Participate in technical discussions around architecture and technology direction.
• Continuously learn and adopt modern development practices and tools.

Qualifications & Skills Required

Education

• Relevant degree in Engineering or Computer Science preferred. Exceptional candidates with relevant practical work experience might be considered.

Experience

• 3–6 years professional software development experience.
• Experience with C# and modern .NET / .NET Core.
• Experience building REST APIs.
• SQL database experience.
• Experience working in a collaborative development environment.
• Understanding of clean code and maintainable software design.

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.

Key Competencies

• Microsoft Azure platform experience.
• Modern frontend/mobile framework exposure, specifically: Flutter and Blazor
• CI/CD pipeline experience.
• Experience building cloud-hosted applications.
• Interest in data-driven or AI-enabled systems.
• Continuous Improvement Methodologies a plus.

Why Join Us?

• This role offers the opportunity to be part of a dynamic team focused on driving innovation and efficiency across the organization. You will contribute to strategic initiatives that shape the future of our business processes and systems.
• Purpose-Driven Vision: Be part of an institution that emphasises operational excellence, inclusivity and widening access to quality higher education.
• Purposeful Work: Contribute to meaningful transformation initiatives that not only directly supports the organisation’s mission and long-term success, but also has a meaningful impact on South Africa.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary in line with relevant experience.
• Generous leave to support work-life balance.
• Collaborative in-office engineering culture.
• Preferred schedule: 4 days on-site, 1 day remote.
• Greenfield and platform development focus.
• Opportunity to help shape emerging technical capabilities.
• Opportunities to continue your studies at any institution in the group after 1 year of employment.